The Chappaquiddick Community Center is looking to fill staff positions for the coming season. If you or someone you know wishes to be a part of Chappy’s very heart and soul, email the center at chappyccenter@gmail.com. They are accepting applications for a person to run the sailing program as well as a sailing instructor and a tennis instructor. Imagine how any one of those experiences will look on your resume!

If you follow the ChappyChat Facebook page, you already know that the big white pine that has been leaning out over the Mytoi pond has fallen. The heavy wet snow of the recent storm finally overcame the other forces of nature.

Lindsay Patterson Allison posted a photo of the tree and noted that she has known for 20 years that this day would come. The garden has suffered devastation before and, through the hands-on efforts of volunteers and staff, has always recovered to be the lovely garden that Hugh Jones created.

Once again, breach watchers are keeping an eye on the low section of Norton Point. This week’s storm is a southerly blast with sufficient duration to wash away enough sand to create a flowing channel. That’s according to previous observations of the conditions that historically have coincided to bust open a water path to the sea. If we’ve learned anything from the past, it’s that there are so many factors involved in a breaching that it’s not easy to forecast.

Imagine the heated discussion at town meeting if creating or closing a breach by human intervention came up for a vote. There are so many pros and cons to that concept.

I’m pretty sure that the Morgan brothers would take opposing views. Bob Carroll would offer to head on down there right now, borrow a Grant Brothers loader on the way and do whatever needed to be done. Highway superintendent Larry Mercier would have reminded the moderator that we foolishly missed the opportunity back in the 1970s when the Army Corps of Engineers offered to armor the beach and put down a paved road. Then he would have turned to face the assembly and emphasize, “For free!”